Why: Poor communication; didn’t fully explain the scope of the job when I expressed my interest in it; failure to properly credit me.
When: We initially began talking about this in the last week of May, and after a brief experiment, I began work on the 31st. Things officially came to an end on the 15th June.
Explain: GardenofRoses, now GeneCo (whom I know as Tenshi) was asking for someone to help her create her by-then relatively popular Blep Adopts. At the time, she was manually drawing every gene from scratch every time she made an adopt. This was wasting time and slowing her down; she was looking for an artist to create gene files she could easily recolour. I was willing to work as that artist.
The offerred pay was 15g per gene, making 45g per completed dragon. I knew this when I signed up and I was happy with that, as the adopts are very small and creating most genes is an incredibly easy task.
Because it was the most efficient system, rather than creating a “blueprint” gene, I was given an adopt to create - typically one that required all three genes to be drawn from scratch.
She would link me to a forum post containing a list of orders, or just send me images of dragons, and I would recreate their genes and colours on the base she gave me.
Sometimes I had to edit the base itself - for example, the guardian base was male, so to complete female guardian adoptsI had to remove the beard and reshape the chest.
I passed on all the .PSD files to Tenshi so she could recolour the genes as needed.
I had to constantly chase Tenshi down for payment. Her communication overall was spotty and escapist. Every time I asked a question, she said she’d deal with it later. Which, in itself, I don’t object to - I understand being busy. The issue was that there was always something else.
I completed 32 new gene files in all, and then bowed out due to wrist pain and anxiety of just how much work there was to do.
Why: User sells adopts, takes money, then ignores the commissioner while spending the money and dodging ETA/Refund questions completely.
When: I contacted and paid them trough PayPal on 4th of June - Still waiting on my order or at least a reply on the order from them.
Explain: I saw GardenOfRoses advertising their adopts in discord and sent them a DM about it.
They didn’t give me a clear quote for how much I should pay, so I sent them 10 usd instead of 1usd that they later tell me about. Upon them seeing that I already paid, we changed the order to include both the accent and all the apparel my dragon was wearing.
We agreed that the rest can be kept as a tip and they give me their estimated deadline for delivery to be “before June 8th.”
I have not heard from them since and it’s been total silence from their end for 2 months now.
Here’s an imgur gallery with all the screenshots of our discord conversation with some added info in each image: https://imgur.com/a/lWu9Lhp
Their old thread (my post on page 57/they ignored this one):
